The View Outside

The View Outside

I look out this window

At the great big world out there

And I really have to wonder

Is there anyone left who cares

The years of life keep passing, each day and each year

And with it, I can’t help it

Is this growing, knowing despair

Can it really be, this ugly?

Is there no kindness anywhere?

Is mankind always hateful, no matter who we are?

Can this be? This reality?

Humanity crashing down on its knees

Over zealots people overjoyed by other’s dark deeds

I sit back from the window with my heart beating low

Darkness all around me chills me to the bone

I wonder where’s the happiness gone and if it was ever there

And I shutter by the coldness of all that hate steals

Can it be? This reality?

Humanity crashing down on its knees

Hopeless, hateful people

Saturating every once of air we breathe.

A small hand reaches up from the darkness

Holds a necklace made of weeds

Here’s a dandelion promise

That I will be good and work hard to be kind

Don’t let the darkness suck you up

Don’t let the hate win

Take my hand Mommy,

We have to try again

It can’t be? This reality?

Not all humanity is on their knees

Hopeful, loving people are still trying to breath

Stand up

Close the window

Hold the hand of the Jeweler

I can’t stop the hateful

But I can change my view for his future

~Deena Thomson~